Amen!

    Yeah, what he said.....  Oh, and him too.....

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[zero]

amen, yes. will those who need to hear it bother to listen? no.

[david beasley]

Maybe they oughta shoulda gotta go looking for water from a deeper well, eh?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO7G1onDJuk

[david beasley]

The 21st c. aW.* Republican's Strange Assbackwards Odyssey Into the Pseudo Puritanical World They Diabolically Created *(after W.):

Sarah Palin. Her decision to be a Republican dropout speaks of a phony yet real (??) revolution within The Repub's ranks I believe. Her announcement comes after the disclosure that her party, The Republicans, is associated with an naughty near pornographic eating and drinking lewd dancing establishment once. "OMG!!!" We can hear her say. "Get behind me, Republicans." she commands. But we all know that money can buy almost anything and so buying out of holes we dig ourselves into and such in the worldly arena of politics (and religion, sports, and Hollywood) we simply move on to ponder America's odd fascination with human sexuallity.

And odd it is that just a little while back America the Puritanic had moral problems with publications like in historical footnotes published today in The Writer's Almanac:
About the battle to print Jmes Joyces' novel "Ulysses"

"Judge John Woolsey wrote the famous decision, in which he said that with "respect of the recurrent emergence of the theme of sex in the minds of [Joyce's] characters, it must always be remembered that his locale was Celtic and his season spring."

So Ulysses was now legally not obscene and could be published in the United States, the first legal publication of the novel in an English-speaking country. Bennett Cerf heard the verdict, and 10 minutes later he had the typesetters at Random House working on Ulysses."

We should conclude that The Republican Party is Celtic and they were in the grasp of Springtime... and again wonder at Sarah Palin's ever ongoing display of her self's self speaking out. I guess. Gets pretty twisted even without weed here in America.

[zero]

you missed your calling, david.
you should have been (and could be) a writer.

[zero]

happy easter to everyone.

[david beasley]

Thanks. Same love, sharing and fellowship back to you, zero & others, in the Living Spirit, risen Christ, & Father who loves us most high,wide and deep so much so we cannot even know it all... just some. And wow. What a knockout that bit is!

[Doug]

So Chuck, do you ever write anything of your own?

[david beasley]

Just for yuks sort of though maybe not:

It's the birthday of a writer who said, "You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do." That's Anne Lamott, (books by this author) born in San Francisco (1954). -- The Writer's Almanac

From Invasive David:
Doug, look to the right of the "Post a comment" section here. That Charles is Chuck.

[zero]

david, that is a delicious quote!

[david beasley]

Glad to hear from you zero. I thought maybe an Easter Day virus was going around.

[zero]

not me, david. although, grandchildren do take priority when they are visiting....

[david beasley]

zero,
about that delicious Anne Lamott quote.
I believe it is the most important lesson which God's chosen people, The Hebrews, never learned and that fact is pointed out time and again page after page in OT and New. And The Christians certainly inherited it.

[zero]

no disputing that point, david. wonder why doug asks if mr chuch writes anything of his own? certainly if he had the time he would offer some of his long, thoughtful posts like he has in the past.

[david beasley]

I recall Chuck speaking of working two jobs which keeps him busier than times past when employed elsewhere. He is a delight to read when tuned in and turned on for commentary, isn't it so! And inspirational. Not many folk flocking in here to comment without him.

That leads me to something you mentioned a while back about starting a church. You know the nature of the church is community of followers and leadership often times with someone who binds it together through the inspired relationship with "the spiritual". Chuck has a church of sorts here. An electronic Christ centered gathering. His conversations with Phillip were awesome and lofty. And you and others brought a depth to understanding which is the beauty of community voice. He inspires folk to share through his own inspirations and hard work. Most of that happened in the past though and I among many would probably pray unselfishly that Chuck would have the time to do what he was doing a few years back. The rolling stone has been rolling on I guess.

My wife bought and yesterday we received through trucking (probably read for david attached with a honey do sticker)a Kentucky High Wheel Wooden Handled Cultivator (turns dirt with 4 different plow blade attachments) from Lehman's Catalog sales in Ohio's Amish heartland. I just fixed our push mower and full of heart healthy soluble oats in Cheerios and Silk (soy milk) I also am about to get busy outside. Bee's need tending as to squashing by hand invasive hive beetles and wax moths. Just cured "Lil Red" my chicken of an unknown malady and so off to check on her after watering the bonsai repotting the 2nd half and sanding before re- assembling and glue up of this estimated 100 year old wood end table with dozens of delicately spiral turned elements I found on the curb in someone's trash pile... my treasure as they say. And concentrate on John 5:2-20's reading about an odd traditional healing at Bethesda Pool, an unfortunately slow moving unhealed guy who gets healed by Jesus (after 30 some odd years of patience and grief... self pity might think about that) and then the "sabbath working scandal" that ensues. But, zero, again it is good to know you are well and had company with grand children.

[zero]

it delights me that jesus did stuff and consorted with "thems" that authority just couldn't tolerate. without even trying, he stuck his thumb in their eyes! go jesus! a person doesn't even have to be believe in jesus to appreciate someone willing to walk their own path in what they believe is right and good.

sounds like you are immersed in the wonders of the land. it is such here on the farm. i am positively giddy this time of year. just being in the surroundings of the farm and nature makes one grateful to be alive and HERE!

this is something of a church, david. well said. and mr loopy makes everyone welcome. he'll be back. maybe others will too. i know kate is out there somewhere. she needs to say hi to us on occasion. (HI KATE!!)

piggies, everyone! =]

[david beasley]

I.
wood/steel garden rig
internal combustible
push plow, human mule
II.
Quiet, I plow to dusk
I sense him on the fence post
glance, curious blue bird
III.
When the engines of
our loud neighborhood shut off
push-plow-garden-dirt
IV.
Seeds in a packet
my wife's hands sow in moon dark
water, dirt, seeds: faith alchemist
V.
Green heads popping up
furrows part to sun
in God know exactly life
VI.
I giggle to think
joy in the cool springtime earth
a planted garden

[zero]

bravo! lovely imagery. i can see it all.
thank you, david.

[david beasley]

zero,
glad you got the vision.
Something happened in the garden while plowing. Although we have several garden plots dug and worked well and planted it is my first experience at making a new plot with a push plow. I broke the never before worked ground up for the first time with a maddox and got a good 20 foot by 35 foot rectangle roughed out that way. That will be 7 to 8 rows of Silver Queen Corn! Then using the 5 tine plow head I was busting up dirt clods like no body's business with that so called Kentucky High Wheeler Cultivator. Then the 5 tine snapped. Well frustration almost mastered me. But I got it welded back at a fab shop up the road within the hour and had a great chat with the shop owner,an old timer now retired by a heart attack and he was building a roadster out of a VW body and a Ford pickup tuck 357 (?) engine... "Whoa man that's like light body with big horses," I sez and he seriously said, "Yep! I'll be havin to learn how to drive'er for sure." Anyways that got me back to the garden plowing without any frustration fits hammering me down, shutting me down. On the 6 row I realized the quiet neighborhood. Almost silent. No engines, no back door slamming or kids and parents yelling. Birds were heard and then I heard the plow turning the earth, breaking the clods. I know I took a lot's of words to get to that one awesome moment of joy and joy deeply felt from my head to my tennis shoes into the earth like some kind of Chinese chi energy thing electric but not shocking just quiet and grounding (no pun). : ) You know? And then did the final row and worked the whole bed over again. Jesus often spoke of garden things.

[zero]

earth is a cathedral, david. that you had that moment of joy is grand. have more!

and that broken plow allowed you to enjoy the company of the dude up the road!

oh, on the safety side; no plowing in tennis shoes. you need steel toed boots and wear goggles over your peepers.

[david beasley]

What's "safety side" ? I'm from Alabama. Nuff said?